Robyn Alexander-Lei, St. Labre’s Home Economics teacher for many years, is always looking for new challenges for the students that will intrigue them and also assist them as they approach adulthood and the workplace. Last year, her class partnered with One Montana, a foundation designed to instill the entrepreneurial spirit in high school kids. [...]
September will be here before you know it and now is the time to make your plans for the St. Labre Donor Tour, which will occur September 18-24. For the past several years the tour has begun in Billings and ended in Rapid City with stops in Yellowstone National Park, the Black Hills of South [...]
“Let the risen Jesus enter your life; welcome Him as a friend, with trust: He is life.” - Pope Francis 2013 Easter Vigil During this sacred season of Easter, when we consider the resurrection of Jesus, we respond to Pope Francis’s invitation to welcome Him into our hearts, minds and into our schools and [...]
By Dave Charpentier Mentoring Program Coordinator Traveling this fall to mentor St. Labre grads in college meant going to more campuses and traveling greater distances than any year before. My driving distance spanned from Pablo near Flathead Lake in western Montana to Bismarck in the middle of the Great Plains in North Dakota, an east-west [...]
The accompanying essay was read at a recent school Mass by Shelrae, a St. Labre sixth grader. She speculates that some of her success at the school goes back to when she entered pre-school at age two. Normally, she would have been in the daycare program, but she says in those days students were tested [...]
Lest you think St. labre Indian School is only a school, think again. Youth and Family Services (Y&FS) provides a plethora of assistance and support across the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Reservations that support our primary goal of providing education to children. As Vicki Anderson, the director notes, “There is a direct tie-in. Many of [...]
“This elk hide is a prayer for the ecosystem to be healthy again, like when Plains Indians were self-sufficient. It is to show that every element is connected to one another and need each other. The future depends on that connection. The impact of the human being is the greatest. So let’s work for [...]
Yes, after nine years of waiting and wondering if this law would ever be anything other than an after-thought Congress considers every December, it was made permanent with President Obama’s signature December 18, 2015. Here are the rules and some thoughts about how the law can benefit many of you who support St. Labre [...]
